I\'m currently working on a project which involves optical character recognition in Android and really need some pointers from somebody who has some experience in the area.
You can take a look at JavaCV which a java interface to OpenCV
You can check something like Tesseract Android Tools (very decent): http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-android-tools/
Here is a heads up for a problem we all run into at the beginning when using it: Bytes Per Pixel value for byte representation of image in Android (if you are using the camera ofc)